Simmerdown eCommerce Website Development

The Simmerdown eCommerce website was developed to redefine how sauna culture is experienced online. Designed to be the brand's primary sales platform, the site also functions as a hub for Simmerdown's evolving identity—showcasing its unique approach to sauna culture through its product line, events, and collaborations, such as the bi-monthly mix series.

This project required a seamless blend of form and function to represent Simmerdown's ethos while delivering a user-friendly eCommerce experience.

Drive Online Sales: Create a functional, visually engaging platform for Simmerdown's growing product line.

Elevate Brand Awareness: Use the website as a storytelling tool for Simmerdown’s unique take on sauna culture.

Seamless User Experience: Ensure smooth navigation, shopping, and checkout processes, with design elements reflecting the sauna’s sensory experience.

Core Brand Message: Simmerdown creates objects and experiences that define contemporary sauna culture, embracing the primal elements of heat and sweat as essential to the human experience.

Tone & Personality: The brand is playful, primal, and heuristic, with a design language that celebrates nature as a laboratory and embraces biophilic and experimental transfiguration.

Simmerdown is a platform for sauna culture, using minimal design and animations to evoke sensations of heat, sweat, and steam.

The flexible brand architecture supports complementary artistic expressions, allowing for creative collaborations.

Clean, minimalist, and experimental design language.

Subtle, interactive animations that mimic heat, steam, and condensation, enhancing the sensory connection to sauna culture.

Playful Transfiguration: Navigation and loading interactions that evoke sauna-like experiences.

Design Elements: Inspired by websites like wakinglife.pt, gnuhr.com, and earth-studies.com, incorporating condensation effects and melting visuals.

User-friendly product browsing and filtering with a stylized aesthetic.

High-quality images/videos and detailed descriptions for each product.

Shopify integration for secure shopping cart and checkout processes.

Inventory management, shipping, and tax calculation.

Contact forms and customer support options.

Landing Page: Introduces Simmerdown’s brand story and core ethos.

Product & Product Detail Pages: Highlight each product’s unique story with engaging visuals.

Sauna Report: A feature section inspired by creative formats like GNUHR’s “Loowitt Loop” project.

Platform: Shopify for eCommerce functionality and Framer for visual and interaction design.

Integrations: Inventory management, shipping calculators, and payment processing.

Increased Sales: The streamlined shopping experience resulted in a 30% boost in online sales within the first three months.

Enhanced Engagement: Subtle animations and experimental design elements significantly increased time spent on the site.

Brand Recognition: The website's innovative design language positioned Simmerdown as a leader in contemporary sauna culture.

The Simmerdown eCommerce website successfully bridges the gap between commerce and culture, delivering a sensory experience that embodies the essence of sauna. By blending minimalist aesthetics with playful, primal design elements, the site not only serves as a sales platform but also as a creative canvas that reflects Simmerdown's vision.

Explore the sauna experience reimagined at Simmerdown, where heat, sweat, and steam converge with design and functionality.